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Leners Patent No. 88,739, daad .4pm c, 1869.

COMBINED CLOTHES-DETER AND IRNING'TABLE` -...Orw- The Schedule referredto in these Letters Patent and making part .of the same.

To all whom it may concern.:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM REICHENBACH, of Chicago, in the county ofCook, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Glothes-Drier, Ironing-Board, and Table Combined; and Ido hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,making part of this specification, and to the'letters of referencemarked thereon, like letters indicating like parts wherever they occur.

To Venable others skilled in the art to construct and use my invention,I will proceed to describe it.

This invention relates to an apparatus for household and laundry use,combining a table, an ironing-board, and a' clothes-drier, and which isso arranged that it may be opened and extended, so as to form anironingboard and clothes-drier, or closed up, so as to constitute anordinary table.

Figure l is a perspective view of the device, extended so as to presentthe ironing-board and clothesdrier.

Figure 2 is a cross-vertical section of one of the hollow posts, showingthe manner of attaching the adjustable arms. Y

I construct a table, A, consisting of the broad base a, the hollowpillar b, and the body c.

The top of this table I divide near one side, and hinge the widerportion B, so that it may turn over back, and form an ironing-board, asshow n in g. l.

Within the pillar b is arranged a series of hollow posts, O, D, and E,fitting one within another, in the manner of telescopic tubes; and tothese posts, I hinge several series of arms, e, f, and g, whicl1,wl1enthe posts are drawn out, may.,be extended horizontally, as shown in fig.1, so as to form a clothes-drier.

The manner of attaching the larms is clearly shown in iig. 2. i

They are set into recesses in the enlarged portion of the posts, andhave their ends slotted, and a pin passed through them, so that they maybe turned down, as

shown by the arrn on the left side, or may be turned ont horizontally,and shoved back, so that their 4ends will engage under a shoulder, andbe securely locked in Vthat position, as shown by the arm ou the rightside.

TheV arms e are attached to the lower end of the post D, and turn downagainst the end of post C, as shown in fig. 1, which supports them inthe horizontal position.

l 1n the table-body c, I place a number of sliding horizontal arins,h,which may be drawn out, as shown in fig. 1, and upon which clothes maybe bling, or. they may be pushed back into the body, with only the knobson their ends projecting.

At one end of the table, I also place an iron shelf, I, to set theHat-irons on, and which shoves into the body c, in the same manner asthe arms h.

In the base a. of the table'is located a drawer, d, to hold theHat-irons when not in use.

The posts are held up, and prevented from closing up by means of thehooks c and e, as shown in iig. 1.

When the apparatus is to be closed up, the shelf I and arms h are pushedinto the body,'the arms g folded down around the post E, and the postshoved down into the post D; the arms e and f closed up around the postD, which is pushed into the post C, and the whole then lowered into thepillar b, after which the cover B is turned down.

The apparatus then'presents the appearance of an ordinary table.

Having thus fully described my invention,

What I- desire to secure by `Letters Patent, is- Y/ The combinedironing-table and clothes-rack, all constructed and arranged to operateas herein shown and described.

Witnesses: W'M; REIOBENBAOH.

WM. H. LoTz, A. LIMBERG.

